Beginning of a fantastic journey:
The evening came and we were all in the common room, playing exploding snap
while talking about all the things outside. Hermione said she thought she knew what some of them things were, but she wouldn't tell. While Ron was looking at her in disgust and muttering things such as "Teachers pet, goody-two shoes and your probably working side by side with the teachers". I was secretly thinking will you all just go to bed, you see I was desperate to read my book again. In the end I said I have some work that I'd forgotten about and went up to the girls dormitory. I sat on my bed reading for hours. When Hermione finally came in I never rushed to put the book away or anything, I knew her too well, she wouldn't make fun. She was actually quiet interested and said she had read something similar herself. I smiled and decided to go asleep. But even after hours of trying and drifting in and out I couldn't. So I just lay there thinking about nothing In particular. I finally dosed off past midnight.
When the morning came the first thing I heard was PM calling in a too loud for the morning voice. She was trying to wake up all the girls and get them into the common room where the boys were already waiting tiredly. When everyone was in the common room (about 10 minutes later after a lot of moaning and groaning) She made sure everyone was there by taking a register. She then said she had an announcement. While most people already thought they had a brief outline of what she was going to say. No body was quiet expecting what she did. Which was "Gather round, gather round. Right ok, now today we will be spending most of it outside, we are having what you could call a muggle week. That's right, a whole week with out magic Mr Longbottom," *looking at the dread on his face, though who could blame him, he could barely cope in a school of magic with magic, never mind without. While the rest of Griffndor looked positively Delighted. 5 minutes later, when the whisper had died down a bit. PM told everyone the event would be ready in an hour at half past 8, and it was his or her choice what time to go, or if to go at all. So basically they had the week off. But everyone was so excited they all wanted to attend. All except Neville, who was asking round pointlessly if anybody would stay in doors with him. I was dreading him getting to me so I crept into the girls' dormitories and started to get ready for the week ahead.
Half an hour later me, Colin, Hermione, Ron and Harry where all leaving the common room together. When everybody else was out, and I was half way through, Neville rushed up to me in such a hurry he tripped over, got back up looking embarrassed. I thought after that he would have just walked away. But no, he came up to me and begged for me to stay with him, I didn't know what to say. I told the impatient others to go to breakfast without me, and to save me a seat as I would be there soon. I walked away from the portrait and sat on the couch. Closely followed by a desperate Neville, he sat sown by me and I asked him "why don't you want to go? I mean, you were a muggle for a very long time and didn't know you even had powers. You'll be great". He replied with a sniff "because, them things won't just be ordinary muggle thing, there will probably be things that jump out at you and stuff. What am I supposed to do with out magic"? I was rather relived he said this, as it felt like an easy thing to persuade him about. I said in a calm voice "Neville, what are you like, do you really think Dumbledor or any of the teachers for that matter would put us in danger like that? PM told us told us it would be a muggle week. And muggle means no magic at all" when I had finished I sat still looking hopeful. He looked at me and said, "erm, ok well I will come tomorrow, as I-I have some homework to finish". I told him I would hold him to that, and left the common room and headed towards the great hall for breakfast. When I got there I sat in my reserved seat next to Hermione and Colin.
After we had finished we headed straight to the outside, with 5 minutes to spare. Though we didn't get there in a hurry as there were so many people waiting to get out already. So we leaned against the nearest wall and stood chatting for a while about the object that was in the way of all the students and the outside. There was defiantly a portrait, which Harry said he recognised from Dumbledors office as one of the previous head teachers. This also happened to be the same man who was related to Sirius, who is Harry's God Father, his dads' old best friend and for a short while the most wanted man ever, for he spent a bit of time in Azkaban prison for a crime he didn't commit, and escaped. Or should I say was and did. You see, at the end of the last school year he had been killed by battling against Lord Voldermort and the death eaters while attempting to save Harry. Which he certainly did do.
There was a rumble of excitement from the front, to portrait flung open to reveal a strange slope. Everyone was confused and didn't know what to do. A few people such as Hermione and Harry identified it as a slide, except they weren't sure if they should go down. After a few minutes of confusing moments Draco Malfoy decided he'd had an enough and went down not caring, closely followed by Crabbe and Goyle as always. After that a few people followed their example and done the same but with hesitation. A few minutes later the crowd started to disappear and it was are turn. Ron went first then Hermione, Harry, me then Colin. I didn't really know what to expect but I sat down by the edge and pushed my self into the hole. It was a matter of seconds and it was over. But as I was going down I noticed it was quiet steep, and I got an unfamiliar lurching in my stomach, which for some reason gave me the desire to giggle uncontrollably. At the very end of it I was waiting for Colin to come down, I could see flashes and shook my head, there was no way Colin would have left today without his camera and an extra film.
When he was down the slide we all headed up a concrete hill and gasped with amazement. We couldn't recognize our schoolyard at all, not even when we had been in Hogworts for years. We carried on walking and set off for a fantastic journey.
The evening came and we were all in the common room, playing exploding snap
while talking about all the things outside. Hermione said she thought she knew what some of them things were, but she wouldn't tell. While Ron was looking at her in disgust and muttering things such as "Teachers pet, goody-two shoes and your probably working side by side with the teachers". I was secretly thinking will you all just go to bed, you see I was desperate to read my book again. In the end I said I have some work that I'd forgotten about and went up to the girls dormitory. I sat on my bed reading for hours. When Hermione finally came in I never rushed to put the book away or anything, I knew her too well, she wouldn't make fun. She was actually quiet interested and said she had read something similar herself. I smiled and decided to go asleep. But even after hours of trying and drifting in and out I couldn't. So I just lay there thinking about nothing In particular. I finally dosed off past midnight.
When the morning came the first thing I heard was PM calling in a too loud for the morning voice. She was trying to wake up all the girls and get them into the common room where the boys were already waiting tiredly. When everyone was in the common room (about 10 minutes later after a lot of moaning and groaning) She made sure everyone was there by taking a register. She then said she had an announcement. While most people already thought they had a brief outline of what she was going to say. No body was quiet expecting what she did. Which was "Gather round, gather round. Right ok, now today we will be spending most of it outside, we are having what you could call a muggle week. That's right, a whole week with out magic Mr Longbottom," *looking at the dread on his face, though who could blame him, he could barely cope in a school of magic with magic, never mind without. While the rest of Griffndor looked positively Delighted. 5 minutes later, when the whisper had died down a bit. PM told everyone the event would be ready in an hour at half past 8, and it was his or her choice what time to go, or if to go at all. So basically they had the week off. But everyone was so excited they all wanted to attend. All except Neville, who was asking round pointlessly if anybody would stay in doors with him. I was dreading him getting to me so I crept into the girls' dormitories and started to get ready for the week ahead.
Half an hour later me, Colin, Hermione, Ron and Harry where all leaving the common room together. When everybody else was out, and I was half way through, Neville rushed up to me in such a hurry he tripped over, got back up looking embarrassed. I thought after that he would have just walked away. But no, he came up to me and begged for me to stay with him, I didn't know what to say. I told the impatient others to go to breakfast without me, and to save me a seat as I would be there soon. I walked away from the portrait and sat on the couch. Closely followed by a desperate Neville, he sat sown by me and I asked him "why don't you want to go? I mean, you were a muggle for a very long time and didn't know you even had powers. You'll be great". He replied with a sniff "because, them things won't just be ordinary muggle thing, there will probably be things that jump out at you and stuff. What am I supposed to do with out magic"? I was rather relived he said this, as it felt like an easy thing to persuade him about. I said in a calm voice "Neville, what are you like, do you really think Dumbledor or any of the teachers for that matter would put us in danger like that? PM told us told us it would be a muggle week. And muggle means no magic at all" when I had finished I sat still looking hopeful. He looked at me and said, "erm, ok well I will come tomorrow, as I-I have some homework to finish". I told him I would hold him to that, and left the common room and headed towards the great hall for breakfast. When I got there I sat in my reserved seat next to Hermione and Colin.
After we had finished we headed straight to the outside, with 5 minutes to spare. Though we didn't get there in a hurry as there were so many people waiting to get out already. So we leaned against the nearest wall and stood chatting for a while about the object that was in the way of all the students and the outside. There was defiantly a portrait, which Harry said he recognised from Dumbledors office as one of the previous head teachers. This also happened to be the same man who was related to Sirius, who is Harry's God Father, his dads' old best friend and for a short while the most wanted man ever, for he spent a bit of time in Azkaban prison for a crime he didn't commit, and escaped. Or should I say was and did. You see, at the end of the last school year he had been killed by battling against Lord Voldermort and the death eaters while attempting to save Harry. Which he certainly did do.
There was a rumble of excitement from the front, to portrait flung open to reveal a strange slope. Everyone was confused and didn't know what to do. A few people such as Hermione and Harry identified it as a slide, except they weren't sure if they should go down. After a few minutes of confusing moments Draco Malfoy decided he'd had an enough and went down not caring, closely followed by Crabbe and Goyle as always. After that a few people followed their example and done the same but with hesitation. A few minutes later the crowd started to disappear and it was are turn. Ron went first then Hermione, Harry, me then Colin. I didn't really know what to expect but I sat down by the edge and pushed my self into the hole. It was a matter of seconds and it was over. But as I was going down I noticed it was quiet steep, and I got an unfamiliar lurching in my stomach, which for some reason gave me the desire to giggle uncontrollably. At the very end of it I was waiting for Colin to come down, I could see flashes and shook my head, there was no way Colin would have left today without his camera and an extra film.
When he was down the slide we all headed up a concrete hill and gasped with amazement. We couldn't recognize our schoolyard at all, not even when we had been in Hogworts for years. We carried on walking and set off for a fantastic journey.
